What If I Can't Pay My Taxes on Time? Five Tips That Can Help

It can be pretty scary to realize that you're going to owe federal income taxes. Even though statistically, half of all taxpayers didn't owe anything in federal income taxes last year, tens of millions of taxpayers did owe the government. If you're one of those taxpayers who owes in 2010 -- but you're not sure that you can pay -- what do you do?